H2O So You Know-Plastic Water
Bottles: Bad For The Environment
Choose Tap Water Over Bottles
We want all you kids out there to always remember to drink a lot of water
and stay hydrated. However, if you mainly drink your water out of plastic
water bottles, we want you to stop sipping for a moment and think about
WHY you do it.
Plastic water bottles are definitely convenient. You can
buy them pretty much everywhere, in every convenience store, every
shopping mall, every movie theatre and even out of vending machines
across the country. But what about the environmental impact of all that
plastic?
Most folks drink their bottled water on the go and there is no
convenient way to recycle the plastic bottles. In 2003, about 40 million
bottles a day went into the trash or became litter. These billions of bottles
take up valuable landfill space, leak toxic chemicals into the groundwater
and take a whopping 1,000 years to biodegrade, if ever.
The high price of bottled water is not for the water but, in reality, to pay for
the cost of the bottling, packaging, shipping, marketing, retailing and
transporting it all over the globe. Next time you pick up a bottle of water,
think about the distance the water in that bottle has traveled before it hits
your lips.
BELIEVE IT: TAP WATER IS CLEANER THAN BOTTLED WATER
If
you believe in the myth that the water that comes out of the tap in your
kitchen sink isn’t as clean as water you buy from the store in a plastic
bottle, YOU’RE 100% WRONG. In fact, tap water is highly regulated in
terms of its cleanliness and safety by our governments; NO ONE
REGULATES THE COMPANIES THAT PUT WATER INTO PLASTIC
BOTTLES, possibly making it much less safe, clean and healthy than the
water that comes from your kitchen sink.
Not to mention, tap water is pretty much free for the taking – a WHOLE
LOT CHEAPER than the bottled kind.
Tap Into Alternatives
If you’re still not so keen on drinking water straight
from the tap, there are other things you can do than buying water in plastic
bottles. Why not ask your mom and dad to make a one-time purchase of a
filter – either one for your sink that converts tap water into filtered water
automatically or a Brita Water Filter, which is plastic jug with an attached
filter on top that you fill with regular old tap water. The water drips through
the filter and into the clear jug below and VOILA! Filtered “tap” water
whenever you want it!
The other thing you (and every member of your family and all of your
friends) should do is invest (one time) in a reusable, portable metal water
container you can fill up at home and take with you whenever you go.
And if you do happen to buy a plastic bottle, just remember to recycle it!!!
Read more: H2O So You Know: Plastic Water Bottles: Really Bad For The
Environment http://www.kidzworld.com/article/17863-h2o-so-you-know-plasticwater-bottles-really-bad-for-the-environment#ixzz3Nt0zoG58
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